Adaptive Memory: Generality of the Parent Processing Effect and Effects of Biological Relatedness on Recall.

ABSTRACT: The adaptive memory framework posits that human memory is an evolved cognitive feature, in which stimuli relevant to fitness are better remembered than neutral stimuli. There is now substantial evidence that processing a neutral stimulus in terms of its relevancy to an imagined ancestral survival scenario enhances recall, although there is still disagreement concerning the proximate mechanisms responsible for this effect. Several other mnemonic biases have recently been discovered that similarly appear to reflect evolutionary pressures, including a bias to remember items relevant to an imagined parenting scenario. We tested the generality of this parent processing effect by varying the biological relatedness of the imagined child. We also varied the biological relatedness of a child during

SUBMITTER: Seitz BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature